$1.5 million Mental Health Funding

Deadline: June 24

Eligibility: Colombia, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Pakistan, Romania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Vietnam

We’re funding bold prevention and promotion ideas that address the early drivers of mental health and wellbeing for the most underserved young people aged 10- to 24 in: Colombia, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Pakistan, Romania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Vietnam, with a focus on urban and peri urban settings.

Being’s funding is guided by specific country priorities determined through locally driven country analyses and consultations with youth, policymakers, local organizations, and mental health experts in our 12 priority countries. We strongly encourage applications from, and will give preference to, youth-led organizations based in the 12 countries.   

Please review the Request for Proposals document for full details on our available funding and country priorities.  

Proof-of-Concept (POC) Funding

We’re looking to fund innovative ideas to address the prevention and promotion of mental health targeted to young people aged 10-24 in 12 priority Colombia, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Pakistan, Romania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Vietnam.

POC funding up to $250,000 CAD will be awarded to early-stage projects that can implement, test and refine solutions to country-specific personal, social, and/or environmental factors impacting young people’s mental health and wellbeing in one of the 12 countries.

Transition-to-Scale (TTS) Funding 

We’re looking to fund tested mental health promotion and prevention approaches targeting young people aged 10-24 in Colombia, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Pakistan, Romania, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Vietnam, with positive results and significant potential to achieve high impact.

TTS funding between $300,000 CAD and $1,500,000 CAD will be awarded to support tested mental health promotion and prevention approaches that align with country-specific priorities along their scaling journey to help catalyze their sustainability and impact.

Learn more: Apply here